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Samsung Unveiled a New Prototype 52-inch 'Ultra Slim' LCD Panel
Jan 15, 2014Over at CES, Samsung unveiled a new prototype 52-inch “Ultra Slim” LCD panel – just 4 centimetres thick! Here is our reported on the ground that day described it: Thinner flat panel televisions have become one of the ...
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Teenage Boys Who Say They Are Underweight and Bullied Are More Likely to Use Steroids
Jan 15, 2014Teenage boys who say they are underweight and bullied are more likely to use steroids and feel depressed than other boys their age, U.S. researchers say. Study leader Aaron Blashill, staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital ...
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Asicminer Has Taken an Unorthodox Step to Gain an Advantage Over Other Computing Systems
Jan 15, 2014Asicminer, a Hong Kong–based bitcoin mining operation, has taken an unorthodox step to gain an advantage over other computing systems running the algorithms that generate the virtual currency. To save money on energy, Asicminer puts ...
Tags: Cloud Service, Electrical, Electronics
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People Who Eat Tree Nuts May Have a Lower Risk off Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
Jan 15, 2014People who eat tree nuts may have a lower risk off metabolic syndrome and obesity than those who don't eat tree nuts, U.S. researchers say. Lead researcher Karen Jaceldo-Siegl of Loma Linda University and colleagues studied the ...
Tags: Tree Nuts, Metabolic Syndrome
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Two Utah Cousins, Disgusted with Reports That 1-in-6 Cellphones Contain Fecal Material
Jan 15, 2014Two Utah cousins, disgusted with news reports that 1-in-6 cellphones contain fecal material, developed a charger that simultaneously sanitizes a cellphone. Dan Barnes told the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas, billed as more than an ...
Tags: cellphones, fecal material
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Users Have Demonstrated The First Growth of Graphene on a Silver Substrate
Jan 15, 2014Users from Northwestern University, working with the Center for Nanoscale Materials EMMD Group at Argonne, have demonstrated the first growth of graphene on a silver substrate. Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the ...
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NIST-4, Begins Operation Later This Year
Jan 15, 2014After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Solar Energy Has Long Been Used as a Clean Alternative to Fossil Fuels
Jan 15, 2014Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could only be harnessed during the day when the sun's rays were strongest. Now researchers led by Tom Meyer at the Energy Frontier Research ...
Tags: solar energy, Tom Meyer, hydrogen fuel, store sun's energy, solar fuels
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Samsung Took It One Step Further with a Staggering 98 QUHD 8K Panel
Jan 15, 2014As CEA chief economist and senior director of research Shawn DuBravac said in his opening keynote before the start of the 2014 International CES, the show is defined by two types of technology: that which is “technically ...
Tags: Samsung Panels, Television
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New Findings Could Aid Our Understanding of Health Disorders, Including Cancer
Jan 15, 2014New findings on how the cells in our bodies are able to renew themselves could aid our understanding of health disorders, including cancer. Scientists have explained a key part of the process of cell division, by which cells are able to ...
Tags: cells, renew, health disorders, cell division, organs functioning
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Researchers Have Succeeded in Crafting Carbon-Nanotube-Based Coating
Jan 15, 2014Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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On Thursday, The CME Group Corn Market Hits a 40-Month Low, Wheat Drops to 2-Year Low
Jan 15, 2014On Thursday, the CME Group corn market hits a 40-month low, wheat drops to 2-year low. Meanwhile, soybeans close higher. The March corn futures contract ended 5cents lower at $4.12. Earlier, the corn market reached $4.08, the lowest since ...
Tags: corn market, soybeans
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Argentina Is Still on Track to Grow a Record Soybean Crop This Season
Jan 15, 2014Argentina is still on track to grow a record soybean crop this season after moderate to heavy showers in recent days ended a brutal heat wave that threatened to slash yields. Corn suffered some damage in December's heat wave, but ...
Tags: Argentine Crops, soybean
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A University of Liverpool Researcher Says Sugar Is The New Tobacco
Jan 15, 2014A University of Liverpool researcher, part of Action on Sugar, which aims to reduce unnecessary amounts of sugar in the diet, says sugar is the new tobacco. Professor Simon Capewell of the university's Institute of Psychology, Health and ...
Tags: Sugar, Sugar in Food
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Here Is Our Wrap up of All The Weird and Wonderful Products on Display in Las Vegas
Jan 15, 2014Legs begin to tire and booth demonstrators run out of things to say into their wireless stage mics, but we keep walking the show floor at the 2014 International CES so you don’t have to! Here is our wrap up of all the weird and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, CES
